Sight Words

Erudition™’s Sight Words Sight words are those words commonly found in print that emergent readers are encouraged to recognize by sight. They are the cornerstone of the board game, Erudition™. Through extensive research, Dr. Edward Dolch and Dr. Edward Fry developed sight word lists. These lists were the primary source of Erudition™’s sight word game…

The Dolch List is Not the Only Sight Word List Sight words are common often phonetically irregular words that a child is encourage to read automatically. Studies reveal that with over a half million words in the English language, only a couple hundred are regularly used in printed material. Doctors Edward William Dolch and Edward…

Edward William Dolch, Ph.D. published a book called Problems in Reading which devoted an entire chapter on sight words. Dolch identified a need for a sight word list as opposed to a standard word list which typically contains over five hundred words. He concluded that the most essential words will be repeated on the “best”…

Dolch and Dr. Seuss Theodor Seuss Geisel, under the pen name Dr. Seuss, authored numerous beginner reading books, which have passed the test of time. In the mid 1950s, Dr. Seuss’ publisher generated a list of 400 common words and asked the author to refine this list to 250 words and write a book using…